The highest ranking officer involved was suspended for 30 days without pay. One patrolman was suspended for 12 days and two were suspended for seven days each.

The gender mix-up began at 2 a.m. Sept. 24, when a Highland Hills patrolman took Marvin Willis of Bainbridge Township to the North Randall jail.

Willis was stopped for speeding and arrested on a charge of concealing a rifle and ammunition in his car, police said. Willis was put into a cell with the jail's only other prisoner, a woman named Erica, Dubsky said. Dubsky declined to release the woman's full name and the reason for her arrest.

The pair remained locked up together until breakfast was brought about 9 a.m., despite jail inspections during the night.